childhood & philosophy  

david knowles kennedy,walter omar kohan

Childhood and philosophy is a journal which has been waiting to be born at least since Socrates sat down in the unique (at least for us) shelter of the 5th century bc polis and founded a discipline. The journal’s conception lies much, much later, in the f... see more

david knowles kennedy

It is difficult to find just one place to look for children and childhood in the American philosopher John Dewey’s work. This is not because he uses the terms so often, but because the concept of childhood pervades his opus in and through another set of ... see more

michel tozzi

Our university research concerns the practice of debates with philosophical objectives (DVP) which take place in four urban co-operative pedagogy classes of ZEP (Zone of Educational Priority), along with the Integrated Corrective Course (CRI, a half-time ... see more

julio santiago cubillos bernal

In this article we try to answer the following questions What is philosophy? What do I understand by philosophy and which should be its role in our time? Can philosophy be taught? If so, how can it be done? What is philosophical attitude? Does it really e... see more

angélica sátiro

This article presents and explains the drawing, the materials and the activities of the project “The track of the dreams” carried through for the MINEDUC (Ministry of Education of Guatemala). This project was worked by 1001 young Guatemalan people in 2005... see more

john roemicher

This paper traces the genealogy of a long-enduring controversy in Western philosophy viz, whether philosophic and mathematical methodologies are equal but separate and distinct approaches to rational inquiry, or whether one is superior to the other from t... see more

jason j. howard

This paper focuses on an event that makes us re-think our most important practices: a workshop in a retreat established in Mendham, New Jersey, under the direction of the IAPC (Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children) of Montclair Univers... see more

claire cassidy

It has been asserted in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child that children’s voices should have a place in society and that their views and opinions should be taken into account by policy makers and those others in authority. This paper suggests ... see more

nadia stoyanova kennedy

This paper argues that paradox offers an ideal didactic context for open-ended group discussion, for the intensive practice of reasoning, acquiring dispositions critical for mathematical thinking, and higher order learning. In order to characterize the fu... see more

angela santi

The idea of this article is to present the aesthetic education as a solution for the split of the man in body (sensitivity) and reason, understanding this split as an structural characteristic of the ocidental modern society. Such critical one of the cult... see more

liliana j. guzmán

This text considers art as an action of life and power, or stated slightly differently, how art is an aesthetic-political game of implication in the bio-political device of our time, especially, in the spaces of “exclusion”, or “social exclusion”. In this... see more